Category: thoughts

In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to the reality of the situation.

Graciela Iturbide

Great photography is always on the edge of failure.

Garry Winogrand

The word ‘art’ is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one’s work. I work for the pleasure, for the pleasure of the work, and everything else is a matter for the critics.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

I prefer my hesitations, my false paths, my stammering, to a preconceived idea.

Robert Doisneau

I am not interested in repetition. I don’t want to reach the point from where I wouldn’t know how to go further. It’s good to set limits for oneself, but there comes a moment when we must destroy what we have constructed.

Josef Koudelka

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.

Jonas Mekas

When I say that a good picture has surprise quality or shock appeal, I do not mean that it is a loud or vulgar picture but, instead, that it stimulates my thinking and intrigues me.

Alexey Brodovitch